Networking and Career Design - STU001AS0AE - Opinto-opas

Networking and Career Design, 5 cr - STU001AS0AE

Upcoming implementations

Networking and Career Design STU001AS0AE-3001 13.01.2025-16.05.2025 5 op (DBE2PCDBI, ...) +-
Teaching methods and instruction

Lectures and class activities, events and do-good project assignment.
Individual learning assignments.
Experiential and reflective learning, problem-based learning.

Learning material and recommended literature

Digital material on Moodle and other materials provided during the course.
Literature and reading list published as the course starts.

Working life connections

Liaising with the local business environment and organisations. Participation in job fairs, guest lectures and possible study visits to local companies.

Campus

Porvoo Campus

Exam dates and re-exam possibilities

No exam.

Teaching language

English

Internationality

Internationalisation on campus, cooperation within international teams
Cultural aspects of networking, career desing, work-life, studies and well-being.
Focus of adapting to the Finnish culture.

Timing

13.01.2025 - 16.05.2025

Learning assignments

Career and Networking Porfolio 1 Project report (do good voluntary work) 2 Career Design Portfolio: Develop a career narrative to guide your continuous career design. Include a roadmap with experiments, deadlines, and resources needed. 3 Reflection of networking events and your activity in them and class work

Enrollment

02.01.2025 - 10.01.2025

Content scheduling

Class on Thursdays 8:30 - 11:00

Schedule published at the course beginning.
Groups
- DBE2PCDBI
- CONTACT
- REE2PC1
- ABE2PCAVI
Alternative learning methods

No alternative way of completing the course.

Teachers

Liisa Wallenius, Niina Moilanen, Kirsi LaPointe

Seats

15 - 60

Further information

Project plan, implementation and reflection on the do-good activities or voluntary work 30 %

Career design portfolio 30 %

Participation and reflection of events: Compile evidence of networking efforts (event attendance, connections made) with reflection, and active contribution and engagement in class discussions 40 %

Self, peer and teacher assessment

Degree Programme

DIGIBBA Digital Business Innovations, STEM Sustainable Tourism and Event Management, AVIBBA Aviation Business

R&D proportion

0.00 cr

Virtual proportion

0.00 cr

Evaluation scale

H-5

Current implementations

No ongoing implementations yet.

Past implementations

No past implementations yet.

After having completed this course or a corresponding course, the student:
- has increased self-awareness and developed career planning skills
-has created a personal career design portfolio with strengths, values and ideas for alternative career paths and experiments
- understands the fundamentals of the Finnish labour market?
- has learnt effective networking techniques and started to build a professional network
- has tools and skills for lifelong career design and wellbeing

This course integrates networking principles with career planning strategies. Students will explore both theoretical concepts and practical techniques to enhance their employability and design a successful career path.

By the end of this course, students will have honed their networking skills, created a career design aligned with their aspirations, and established valuable professional connections.

Execution methods –
This course is implemented in contact mode and includes workshops on campus with practical exercises, networking events with industry experts, a do-good project/voluntary work and creating a career design portfolio.

The material is available on Moodle platform

Welcome to design your career and build your network! This course will help you develop your career planning skills and identify the key components of a meaningful career path. During this course you will cultivate professional relationships with peers, mentors and industry experts and make local connections in a do-good voluntary project/work. You get to ideate alternative career paths and try out your ideas to brand yourself in the Finnish labour market.

When the implementation type of the course is contact it is required that the student is present during those teaching hours that are marked in the study schedule. If you are absent more than 25 %, your grade will be lowered by one. If you are absent more than 50 %, the course is failed.

No prerequisites.

Student:

• participates in networking events and the project
• reflects on networking activities in the career design portfolio according to the instructions
• submits a career action plan

Student:
• participates actively in networking events, project and class discussions
• reflects thorougly on networking activities in the career design portfolio with some evidence of networking efforts
• can identify own strengths and areas for development very well and submits a well thought out career action plan in the career design portfolio

Student

• participates proactively in networking events, project and contributes significantly to class discussions
• is able to critically reflect on networking activities and efforts and lessons learnt in the career design portfolio
• can identify and reflect on own strengths and areas for development in a professional way and submits an analytical and creative career action plan and development strategy to enter the Finnish labour market